US History › Section C · Toward independence › Topic C.3
The Townshend Acts and colonial resistance
A year after the Stamp Act's repeal, Parliament tried again with taxes on imported goods and tougher enforcement. The result was a second boycott, an army in Boston, and five deaths on a winter night in 1770 that both sides would fight to define.
In this topic
- Parliament tries again
- The duties and the external-tax gamble
- Salaries, searches and a customs board
- Dickinson's answer
- Worked example: why the external-tax gamble failed
- The Circular Letter and a second boycott
- Soldiers in Boston
- The Boston Massacre
- Worked example: reading Revere's engraving
- Partial repeal
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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